Revision History - Ring Switch Wizard
Version 4.4.1000 (Release Date: 19-March-2009) - For All Models
- Supports rack switches (EK-26, EK-32, EF-26, and EF-32)
- Sixnet Real-time Ring protocol integration
- Link loss alarms and flexible alarm configuration
- RSTP-aware IGMP for faster multicast failover
- Port status added to CLI info command
- Many web UI refinements and improvements
Version 4.3.1003 (Release Date: 18-September-2008) - For All Models
Major new features:
- None - maintenance release
- Improved CPU performance for Gigabit switches under heavy unidirectional load
- Allowed non-management VLANs to be given VLAN ID 1
- Text UI may list Secure Mode twice for VLAN mode configuration
- Under some circumstances switch may fail to get an address via DHCP
- CLI doesn’t allow setting management VLAN ports
- Gigabit switches may default to having gigabit speeds disabled
- Port-based VLANs and management VLAN interaction issue
Version 4.3.1000 (Release Date: 4-June-2008) - For All Models
Major new features:
- None - maintenance release
- Improved handling of older checkpoint files
- Restoring factory defaults may be slow
Version 4.3 (Release Date: 17-April-2008) - For All Models
Major new features:
- Full support for the SL-8MG-x switches.
- MAC table monitoring is now available in the web user interface.
- Improved VLAN configuration and validation in the web user interface.
- Independent VLAN learning is now available.
- Issue with applying changes under some circumstances in models with the ARM9 CPU.
- Some filenames were not accepted when uploading configuration checkpoints over http.
- On -MDM models only, the modem may not answer when DO is configured for CD.
- For some models, on the IGMP monitoring page, the IP addresses of other IGMP devices may be displayed in reverse order
Note: Version 4.2 was skipped.
Version 4.1 (Release Date: October-2007) - For All Models
Major new features:
- Support for USB as a serial device. Some new managed switches now have a USB console port in addition to the RS232.
- Supports new hardware including SL-8MS-8/9, SL-5MS-MDM, SL-5MS/8MS with ARM9 CPU, and 32MB CPUs.
- Modem switches no longer support independent setting of receive and transmit data compression; compression is ON or OFF.
- Longer guard time around +++ when trying to put modems in command state. Makes for more reliable dial out messaging.
- Port mirroring may fail in some 8MS switches.
- NAND memory can become corrupted on PPC-based switches under some circumstances.
- Passwords can’t have $ in certain positions.
Version 4.0 (Release Date: July-2007) - For All Models
Open source: (GPL and others)
- Same as v2.2
Major new features:
- Support for ET-9MS based on ARM9 CPU.
- Ability to have 100Mbps fiber on the SFP gigabit ports of 10MG and 18MG (contact SIXNET for support availability in the 9MG)
- Q in Q (double tagging) (gigabit models only at this time)
- Allow management VLAN ID and ports to be changed (gigabit models only at this time)
- Special IGMP feature – Ports can now be excluded from IGMP processing.
- Changed port path cost default to be consistent with IEEE standard requirement (all managed switches).
- Managed switch may not interoperate with MST switch in RSTP mode.
- Managed switch could fault at boot up if configured NTP server is not available.
- VLANS were being incorrectly deleted in managed switch web UI.
- Corrected sysObjectID for all managed switches.
- Non-default SNMP community strings may not work.
- Problem configuring managed switch host name in text UI.
- Port Security text UI page may cause a segmentation fault when trying to add MAC addresses.
- Web server log files could use up all space in the /tmp directory.
- Set IP Per Port configuration screens should not be displayed for MG switches.
- CLI expects the wrong range for IEEE VLAN tags.
- Memory alignment fixups should be enabled for unaligned memory accesses.
Note: Version 3.8 and 3.9 were skipped.
Version 3.7.1001 (Release Date: February-2007) - For All Models
Open source: (GPL and others)
- Same as v2.2
- Add support for the ET-5MS-OEM-2-1 model
- If an NTP server is configured but unavailable when the switch is restarted, the switch may respond slowly.
- Problem deleting high-numbered VLANs in the table
- An @ in the switch contact information may interfer with saving and setting the network address or subnet mask.
- Port security shows up in the 5MS models (text UI only) when it is not supported by the 5MS.
Version 3.7.1000 (Release Date: December-2006) - For All Models
Open source: (GPL and others)
- Same as v2.2
- None - maintenance release
- Set IP per Port Feature may assign an incorrect Subnet Mask to the DHCP client
- (Note: This feature is not currently supported by MG models.)
- Port security shows up in 5MS switches when it is not supported by 5MS switches
- Problem with PPP in 5MS-MDM switches
- Port LEDs may not act properly on a SL-5MS
Version 3.7 (Release Date: November-2006) - For All Models
Open source: (GPL and others)
- Same as v2.2
- Full support for the ET-10MG, ET-16MS and ET-18MG switches
- Faster boot time and web server operation
- Gigabit fiber ports can now be configured for auto-negotiate or fixed modes
- Network statistics page has a “change” column to indicate the change in the counter from the previous refresh of the screen
- VLAN interfaces are now consistently presented as “vlanid/port#”
- All options now configurable in CLI (Command Line Interface)
- NTP server, TFTP server, and Gateway can now be fully qualified domain names (FQDN) like “0.pool.ntp.org” (rather than an explicit IP address) if DNS is configured
- When changing the switch’s IP address via the web UI, you will now be redirected to the new address and not lose connectivity to the configuration session
- Redundancy status page now includes topology change counter
- MAC-based port security – ability to define what MAC addresses are allowed per port
- (Note: Not supported by 5MS models.)
- None
Note: Version 3.6 was skipped.
Version 3.5 (Release Date: October-2006) - For All Models
Open source: (GPL and others)
- Same as v2.2
- Full support for the new ET-5MS-MDM Ethernet Modem
- New configuration status page
- Added some additional OEM support
- Support for upcoming new “SL” switches (to be announced)
- MAC address assignment in 5-port managed switches may have been incorrect
- IP-Per-Port feature was not working properly under some circumstances
Note: Version 3.4 was skipped.
Version 3.3.1001 (Release Date: 20-June-2006) - For All Models
Open source: (GPL and others)
- Same as v2.2
- None - maintenance release - phase 3
- Web and text user interfaces may not respond when there is high broadcast traffic
Version 3.3.1000 (Release Date: 6-June-2006) - For All Models
Open source: (GPL and others)
- Same as v2.2
- None - maintenance release - phase 2
- 5MS: ATU could clog with unused multicast group entries, then flood multicast data
- Could lose connectivity with RSTP enabled and moderate broadcast traffic
- May have rejected maximum length packets that are tagged
- Disabled ports may not have been fully disabled
- The web UI required cookies enabled for use with Internet Explorer
Version 3.3 (Release Date: 24-May-2006) - For All Models
Open source: (GPL and others)
- Same as v2.2
- None - maintenance release - phase 1
- 9MG only: Data may have been dropped after a long run at high bandwidth usage
- 9MG only: firmware updates may not have loaded properly
Version 3.2.1000 (Release Date: 28-March-2006) - For ET-9MG and ET-9MS Models
Open source: (GPL and others)
- Same as v2.2
- None - maintenance release
- Ports 8 and 9 on ET-9MG models only may have problems defining root switch for RSTP.
Version 3.2 (Release Date: 17-March-2006) - For All ET-9MG, ET-9MS & ET-5MS Models
Open source: (GPL and others)
- Same as v2.2
- Full support for the new ET-5MS (5-port) managed switches.
- The RSTP was further improved and now offers typical recovery times of 30 mS per hop.
- Support for NTP (Network Time Protocol) as a client plus SNMP Etherstats have been synced to real time clock.
- Set Device IP gives you the ability to fix the IP address that is given to directly connected Ethernet devices on a port by port basis. Now you can easily swap or replace devices and the IP address will remain fixed.
- An inactivity timer will automatically close your management connections to secure your switch from unauthorized access.
- A new IGMP capability allows you to filter all multicast messages if there are no IGMP groups joined. The default is to flood all multicast messages if no groups are detected.
- For additional security, IP access can be disabled by setting the IP address to 0.0.0.0.
- Checkpoint files saved with older firmware can now be restored in the latest firmware.
- You can now fully configure QoS in the terminal interface in addition to the web interface.
- Auto-negotiated 1G ports must have a non-gigabit speed selected (MG only).
- Tag mapping configuration wasn’t working in text UI (web UI was okay).
- SNMPWALK may report error after Qbridge MIB.
- Link up/down trap enable wasn’t being restored from checkpoint.
- Problem in NET-SNMP prevented the disabling of authorization failure traps. The switches now have the newer NET-SNMP v5.2.2 which has this fixed.
- The RMON MIB was missing a couple parameters.
- Problem with updating firmware via web gui in 9MG only.
- ARM-based switch (only 5MS at this time) may have mishandled root path cost.
- Problem with saving and restoring some checkpoint configuration.
- The permissions on net-snmp were misconfigured which allowed you to set improper SNMP community strings in the text UI.
- Loading files from the Update Firmware screen of the web interface may have had problems with long filenames with spaces.
- Problem with when trying to delete the last SNMP manager IP address In hyper terminal.
Version 3.1 (Release Date: 08-March-2006) - For All ET-9MG and ET-9MS Models
Open source: (GPL and others)
- Same as v2.2
- Support for a new type of Flash memory found in newer IPm-based Ethernet switches. This release is also 100% compatible with all existing switches.
- None
Note: Version 3.0 was skipped.
Version 2.9 (Release Date: 5-October-05) - For All ET-9MG and ET-9MS Models
Open source: (GPL and others)
- Same as v2.2
- Combined support for all managed switch models ET-9MS and ET-9MG
- With v2.8 only, fixed speed ports such as fiber ports (100 Mbps only; gigabit fiber ports not affected) may not link properly
Version 2.8 (Release Date: 30-September-05) - For ET-9MG Models Only
Use this version with ET-9MG (Gigabit models) only!
Open source: (GPL and others)
- Same as v2.2
- Full support for Gigabit managed switches models ET-9MG-xx
- Advanced OEM capabilities now available
- RSTP may be affected when sending SNMP notifications
- Segmentation fault errors may be seen in text user interface after DHCP is enabled
- Web user interface may stop responding effectively after DHCP is enabled
- Port-based VLANs may not initialized properly under certain conditions
Note: Version 2.7 was skipped.
Version 2.6A (Release Date: 09-August-05) - For ET-9MS Models Only
Open source: (GPL and others)
- Same as v2.2
- DHCP support improved
- DHCP may cause segmentation fault
- Port-based VLANs may not initialize correctly
Version 2.6 (Release Date: 06-June-05) - For ET-9MS Models Only
Open source: (GPL and others)
- Same as v2.2
- RSTP update (IEEE 802.1D-2004) which includes additional choices for the Edge parameter and larger network diameter (40 switches vs. 8 in previous release)
- The default for scheduling in QoS has been changed from Fair to Strict to be compliant with Section 7.7.4 of IEEE 802.1D-2004
- A date is now displayed for when the checkpoint was last saved
- The web UI remembers the last page the user viewed with a browser cookie and resumes there the next time the switch is accessed
- Issue with installing large patch files
Version 2.5 (Release Date: 27-Apr-05) - For ET-9MS Models Only
Open source: (GPL and others)
- Same as v2.2
- Port and tag-based VLANs based on IEEE 802.1Q
- SSH (Secure Shell) for secure and encrypted management
- None
Version 2.4 (Release Date: 30-Mar-05) - For ET-9MS Models Only
Open source: (GPL and others)
- Same as v2.2
- None
- When IGMP is disabled, multicast messages may not be flooded to all ports
- Dynamic disable of IGMP doesn’t flush ATU
Note: Version 2.3 was skipped.
Version 2.2 (Release Date: 25-Jan-05) - For ET-9MS Models Only
Open source: (GPL and others)
- U-Boot v1.1.0 modified
- Linux kernel v2.4.18 modified
- Busybox v0.60.3 modified
- NET-SNMP v5.1.1 from www.net-snmp.org
- Apache web server v1.3.29 from www.apache.org
- Multicast filtering (IGMP Snooping and Querying) (v1 and v2)
- Download and Upload of configuration or firmware files
- Changed Flow Control default to disabled
- SNMPwalk causes segmentation fault in RSTP
- Issue with leaving SNMP password blank
- Some SNMP responses are slow
Version 2.1 (Release Date: 01-Oct-04) - For ET-9MS Models Only
Open source: (GPL and others)
- U-Boot modified 1.1.0
- Linux kernel: modified 2.4.18
- Busybox: modified 0.60.3
- NET-SNMP from www.net-snmp.org
- SNMP v3 encryption and authentication; application note also revised
- SNMP notifications (traps) for authentication failure, topology change and links
- Can disable SNMP completely
- Priority Queuing (i.e. Traffic Priority) – QoS, CoS, ToS/DiffServ
- Message rate filtering – broadcasts and multicasts storm protection
- All parameters obtained via DHCP are now displayed in the Sys. Info. page
- Fdb table reports wrong port for management MAC addresses
- Issue with MAC address for each port for RSTP
- RSTP issue when switch is queried by SNMP software
Version 1.10 (Release Date: 30-July-04) - Initial Release For ET-9MS Models Only
Open source: (GPL and others)
- U-Boot modified 1.1.0
- Linux kernel: modified 2.4.18
- Busybox: modified 0.60.3
- NET-SNMP from www.net-snmp.org
- First release which includes:
- Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) with support for STP
- SNMP v1 and v2
- DHCP or fixed settings
- Port configuration
- Port mirroring
- Basic (http) and secure (https) web interface
- Telnet and terminal interface
- Not applicable (original release)